> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities <http://hot.ee/tar/?l=/tar/download/>, but there is no URL > >>for the corresponding source code. > >> > >>I see mentions of the GPL on your site, so I'm guessing you are aware > >>that you are *required* by the GPL to distribute source code for such > >>utilities? > > > >Apologies to everyone for the imminent flaming. > > That's ok. I'm giving you another gold star for doing this despite the > possibility of someone calling you names, suggesting that you're wasting > your time, and reminding you that you're not a lawyer and so have no > right to an opinion. That takes some courage.
Thanks! Open source is a great thing, and if some name calling and YANAL shouting comes along my way then all the better. Even if that's all that comes from this, at least I tried :-) > Thank you. Perhaps a http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ web page is in order ;-) No, I'm only kidding... Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/